Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
I’m often asked if there is something I think writers ought to do, and recently in an interview I heard myself say: “Several things. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
Maria Popova • Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
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drive.google.comSince in India, more than in any other part of the world, food has been invested with meaning as a marker of identity. The corollary of “You are what you eat” is “You eat what you are”
Buddhists, Jains, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and those adhering to other religions have their own food prescriptions and proscriptions. Feasts to celebrate festivals and
... See moreMy soul is a hidden orchestra,” the first entry reads. “I do not know what instruments, what violins and harps, drums and tambours sound and clash inside me. I know myself only as a symphony.”
Joan Didion
Holding up Mary Somerville as a model of possibility, Fuller argued that when unblinded by the “narrowness or partial views of the home circle” and granted equal access to education, “women are better aware how rich and great the universe is”. Only with a full view of this richness would women be able to carve out their own path, rather than seeing
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